Office Products Microsoft Office. Upgrade to Office 3. Office applications, installs on multiple PCsMacs and devices, 1 TB One. Drive cloud. storage per user, tech support, and other services with your subscription. Microsoft One. Drive Review Rating. One. Drive has gone through many changes and names over the years. The service has been known as Sky. Drive, Live Mesh, Folder. Share, and other things since its birth. The Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac 1. Mac App Store. For more details go here. Windows Phone 7 Connector for Mac is a new. OneDrive previously SkyDrive, Windows Live SkyDrive, and Windows Live Folders is a filehosting service operated by Microsoft as part of its suite of online services. Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=424a009a-e153-45fc-a5df-e3b0eb10e4cd' alt='Onedrive For Business Mac Beta Download' title='Onedrive For Business Mac Beta Download' />Its functionality has morphed to a point of slick usablity, reliability, and a rich feature set. Most recently, Microsoft announced that it would downgrade storage limits starting some time in early 2. Nevertheless, Microsofts cloud storage and file syncing offering continues to improve, despite the smaller storage allotments. One. Drive includes attractive Web and mobile interfaces now with offline capability, music streaming, shared desktop folder syncing, real time coauthoring in Office, notifications of others edits, and full document searching in shared files. The service is also deeply integrated with Windows 1. Microsofts online backup and syncing service is still very flexible and cross platform capable, with syncing and access apps not only for PCs, but also for Macs, Androids, i. OS devices, and Windows Phones. It integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office 2. Apples competing i. Cloud is only available for Apple devices. And while i. Cloud Drive and Google Drive now make stuff stored in that cloud service available on the Web, One. Drive tops that by even making PC files that you didnt specifically upload available. For all this power and flexibilitynot to mention eminently attractive and usable interface, One. Drive remains a PCMag Editors Choice. Like Apple i. Cloud, One. Drive serves a lot of functions. If you just want access to documents or media files, it offers simple online storage accessible from the Web. If you want the same set of files replicated on multiple PCs, it provides folder syncing. For users of Windows 8. Windows 1. 0, and Windows Phone, it backs up device settings, including things like lock screen and desktop background images and email logins. Because of this diversity of function, there are several different cross sections from which you can view the serviceby type of data, client, or function. The data types include documents, photos, video, music, or settings. The clients include computer, mobile, and Web, and the functions are things like syncing, viewing, playing, and simple storage. Lets take a look at the service from these various angles. Your One. Drive Account. Anyone can get a free One. Drive accountwell, anyone whos created a Microsoft account, which includes everyone whos ever signed up for a Hotmail, Live, or Outlook. Free users get 5. GB free storage space reduced from 1. GB in 2. 01. 6, but if youre a longtime One. Drive account holder since April 2. GB free. This compares with 1. GB free for i. Cloud, 2. GB for Dropbox, and 1. GB for Google Drive. Office 3. 65 users get an extra terabyte for their 6. GB to One. Drive for 1. The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and even inexpensive tablets come with 1. TB included. And you can get significantly more free storage through Bing Rewards and referrals. Heres a summary of the pricing compared with that of the other services Device Syncing. Microsoft likes to refer to One. Drive as a device cloud. With Windows 1. PCs and Windows Phones, the moniker makes sense. The service can sync settings and apps on those types of devices, while clients for i. Reason Core Security Keygen Music. OS, Android, and Mac OS X give users of those devices access to the files stored in One. Drives online folders. Like i. Cloud for i. Phones and i. Pads, One. Drive lets smartphone userswith i. Phones or Androids running the services app as well as Windows Phonesautomatically upload photos and videos taken with the phones camera to One. Drives camera roll. This way, the photos are quickly available for viewing online, in a One. Drive folder on a PC, in a Windows 1. PCs Photos app, on the Web, or in any other One. Drive app you have installed. In the One. Drive Web interface, you can view the photos as a slideshow, and even see a map of where they were taken along with EXIF camera info. Apples i. Cloud and Google Drive can also show synced photos on the Web, but without map or EXIF data. Another service in the realm of device syncing is the ability to sign into your account and reproduce a previous machine youve set upcolor and background themes, social and email accounts, user photo, browser favorites and history, and even apps. One. Drive accomplishes this for both Windows 8. Windows 1. 0 PCs and Windows Phones. But the service goes even further, by allowing third party apps to take advantage of your cloud storage. Apps and sites can even use the service for single sign on with your permission. Folder and File Syncing One. Drive offers another desktop computer centric functionfile and folder syncing. This convenience is similar to what you get with Dropbox and Sugar. Sync. In the past, Microsoft had separate storage and syncing services. The joining of online storage and syncing into one cloud service is a refreshing simplification of a previously somewhat confusing set of systems. One. Drive syncing on computers differs from the earlier Mesh in that you cant designate any old folder you want to be synced, only those under the One. Drive main folder. But Microsoft has made it possible for these synced folders to look less sequestered in the One. Drive world, by using Windows Libraries. It also adds a truly cool feature called Fetchmore about that in a moment. The desktop clients for One. Drive syncing run on Windows Vista through Windows 7 and Mac OS X 1. Theyre quick to install, with a setup wizard that lets you create an account if you dont already have one. It then shows how your One. Drive folder will appear in Windows Explorer or Finder, with its little blue cloud icon instead of the traditional yellow folder icon. Setup also places a cloud icon in your system tray, from which you can open your synced folder or change settings. When you place a photo, document, or other item in the created One. Drive folder, it automatically appears in any of your other One. Drive clients on any of your other computers. You can even share a whole folder, but to coedit documents in the online versions of Office applications you have to share individual files. For a quick test, I went over to my Windows 8. PC and created a new folder in the One. Drive app, which appeared seconds later in a Windows 7 machines One. Drive folder that I had set up. Including One. Drive in Windows Explorer is incredibly helpful because you can save work from any application to your cloud storage directly, without having to go to a website. Windows 1. 0 and Mobile Clients. With Windows 1. 0, One. Drive becomes more of a built in capability. Its separate modern app version is gone, which makes sense, as it pretty much duplicated the Web view of One. Drive. In the new OS, you see One. Drive in the File Explorer. In Windows 1. 0, you can choose which One. Drive folders are synced or have everything synced. Results in Cortana searches for files now include One. Drive files, and the new Groove Music service can stream any music files you upload to One. Drive. One disappointment for me, however, is that standard apps like Photos dont offer One. Drive as a share target, while third party services like Facebook and Twitter do. One. Drive is built into Windows 8. Windows 1. 0 and Windows Phone, as long as youve signed into a Microsoft account. But what if you use other technology platforms One. Drive includes syncing and file access apps for not only Windows 7 and 8, but for Mac OS X, i.